[tosca100]

I haven't seen one of those lemons in ages.........mum always used to use them on pancake day.....happy days

They still sell them in T

[Hey Jude]

MoS, this definitely isn't you lost recipe - just look at the method!!!!!, but I've just found this in my file (ha ha, it's a pile of clippings stuffed in a box) - don't know if the quantities are what you're after:

4oz butter
zest of 1 lemon
8oz caster sugar
3 large eggs separated
9oz self raising flour
juice of 1 lemon
8 fl oz plain yoghurt

Oven at 150c / gas 2. Greased and lined 7 x 7 square brownie tin.
Cream butter, zest and sugar til light and fluffy, beat in yolks one at a time.
Sieve in half flour, half juice and half yoghurt, and fold in gently. Repeat with the other halves.
Whisk whites to soft peak stage and then fold in.
Into tin, into oven for about 2 hours.

I've not tried this one probably because I never have the time to be faffing separating eggs and folding whites in (unless it's Nigel Slater's Carrot Cake, which is sublime), and I also think 2 hours in the oven seems a long time to me - but hey, I've never made it so I know diddly squat!!Jude.

[mumofstig]

Seems like long slow cooking..........but I'll give it a go and keep an eye on it
Thank you 

[Madame Cholet]

orange is nice too. Warm with custard in the winter.

[sunshineband]

Is it a loaf cake?

[mumofstig]

my cake? no it was a round spongey one.....or should have been  

[sunshineband]

http://www.retro-housewife.com/greek-yogurt-cake-recipe.html

Just wondered as one recipe I use is loaf shaped and quite dense. This one (made by my DD) is quite light and tangy. Is it like yours?

[mumofstig]

my one used greek lemon yogurt which I can't get here, so I used lemon juice and I think that's why it went pearshaped the linked one uses lemon rind, how lemony does it taste
Sunny?

[sunshineband]

Fairly lemony. Clearly a lemon taste but not sour at all, just fresh.

 I think you coud easily adjust the quantity of grated rind as it is not really an ingredient tha affects texture, only taste -- it has little liquid content 

[agingchick]

I make my own yogurt and the easi-yo mixes from Lakeland do a lemon one that is delicious
Diane

[Livinhope]

Sorry to be picky but you said the original recipe used Greek lemon yoghurt and you tried Greek STYLE yoghurt.  Do you think that could have been the difference.  It's the usual thing not Greek made so they have to word it differently.

[mumofstig]

Hey........anything could have made the difference.....who knows!
Proper Greek yogurt is made from sheeps milk with added cream.........I know English made yogurts only use cows milk, so what they do to make it greek style heaven knows

[Livinhope]

I hope I'm not going to make a complete fool of myself but doesn't sheeps milk contain different fat molecules to cows.  If so that could well be the answer.

[arugula]

I haven't seen one of those lemons in ages.........mum always used to use them on pancake day.....happy days

Local Co-op?

[tosca100]

Total greek yogurt, made in Greece, is made from cow's milk and cream, I think the thickness is because it's strained to remove some water content. Greek style yogurt is not as thick. You can get yogurt made with goat or sheep milk, or a mixture.